In Case You Were Wondering III

Sekkusu means "sex" in Japanese.
Spain literally means "the land of rabbits."
The "You Are Here" arrow on a map is called the IDEO locator.
The third year of marriage is the leather anniversary.
The abbreviation "e.g." stands for "exempli gratia," or "for example."
The abbreviation for pound "lb.," comes from the astrological sign Libra, meaning "balance."
The French term bourrage de crane for wartime propaganda means "brain stuffing."
 The infinity character on the keyboard is called a lemniscate.
The Japanese translation of switch is pronounced suitchi.
The name for fungal remains found in coal is Sclerotinite.
The phrase "jet lag" was once called boat lag, back before airplanes existed.
The Sanskrit word for war means "desire for more cows."
The slang word crap comes from T. Crapper, the man who invented the modern toilet.
The slash character is called virgule, or solidus. A URL uses slash characters, not backslash characters.
The word karate means "empty hand."
The word byte is a contraction of "by eight."
Trabant is the German word for "satellite."
Zorro means "fox" in Spanish.
A coward was originally a boy who took care of cows.
A group of officers is called a mess.
The next-to-last event is the penultimate, and the second-to-last is the antepenultimate.

SEMANTICS
Naked means "to be unprotected"; nude means "unclothed."
A hamlet is a village without a church, and a town is not a city until it has a cathedral.

In Case You Were Wondering II

Women who wink at men are known as nictiting women.
A necropsy is an autopsy on animals.
A poem written to celebrate a wedding is called an epithalamium.
A scholar who studies the Marquis de Sade is called a Sadian, not a Sadist.
According to author Douglas Adams, a salween is the faint taste of dishwashing liquid in a cup of fresh tea.
Alma mater means "bountiful mother."
An animal epidemic is called epizootic.
Degringolade means "to fall and disintegrate."
Dendrology is the study of trees.
Dibble means "to drink like a duck."
EEG stands for electroencephalogram.
EMI stands for electrical and musical instrument.
Groaking is to watch people eating in the hope that they will offer you some.
"Hara kiri" is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word seppuku, which means, literally, "belly splitting."
It is possible to drown and not die. Technically, the term drowning refers to the process of taking water into the lungs, not to death caused by that process.
Karaoke means "empty orchestra" in Japanese.
Kemosabe means "soggy shrub" in Navajo.
Koala is Aboriginal for "no drink."
Lead poisoning is known as plumbism.
Scatologists are experts who study feces.